2015 Accommodations for Students with Disabilities Taking State Assessments

Accommodations for students with disabilities provide
students with effective and equitable access to grade-level or course
curriculum and assessments. For the purposes of the statewide
assessments, students needing accommodations due to a disability
include:

Accommodation Triangle

Students with an identified disability who receive special education services and meet established eligibility criteria for certain accommodations

Students with an identified disability who receive Section 504 services and meet established eligibility criteria for certain accommodations

Students with a disabling condition who do not receive special education or Section 504 services but meet established eligibility criteria for certain accommodations

For students who receive special education or Section 504 services, the decision for a student to use accommodations during the statewide assessments is made by the Admission, Review, and Dismissal committee or Section 504 placement committee. In those rare instances where a student does not receive services but meets the eligibility criteria because of a disabling condition, the decision about using accommodations on the statewide assessments is made by the appropriate team of people at the campus level, such as the Response to Intervention (RTI) team or student assistance team.

This webpage serves as TEA's annually published accommodations manual. To view these separate PDFs as one file, use the following
link: 2015 Accommodations for Student with Disabilities (PDF). This file is
very large at 7.2MB, so the download time depends on your internet connection
speed.

The
Accommodation Triangle

This triangle organizes
accommodations for students with disabilities by type, depending on the
decision-making authority. Accommodation decisions made by the appropriate team
of people at the campus level are Type 1 accommodations. TEA approval of
Accommodation Request Forms are Type 2 accommodations. PDF links to specific
information about each accommodation are provided in the triangle below.
Note that not all accommodations are applicable to all assessments.

Accommodation
Request Process

For accommodations listed in the
Accommodations Triangle under Type 2, the appropriate team of people at the
campus level determines whether the student meets all of the specific
eligibility criteria and, if so, submits an Accommodation Request Form to TEA.
Educators must read and understand the information in the links below prior to
submitting an Accommodation Request Form to TEA.

The Training Document outlines the steps to take when
completing an Accommodation Request Form in the online system. It is recommended
that all educators completing the online Accommodation Request Form review this
document prior to submitting the form to TEA.